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Rexford, Montana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Eureka census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59930. It stands on Tobacco River. The Survey maps it on the Rexford quadrangle. 78 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,549 feet above sea level.

Rexford within Lincoln County

Population over time

2 figures

Rexford fell from 105 to 78 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010105
202078-27 (-26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

203 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 203 fires within 5 miles of Rexford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,134 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 8 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning59
Natural38
Recreation and ceremony38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Fireworks10
Arson/incendiarism8
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1994Smokingunder an acreKootenai National Forestnot named
7 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKootenai National ForestCATTLE GUARD FIRE
5 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKootenai National ForestTOOLEY
4 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKootenai National ForestFLAMING OWL
4 September 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKootenai National ForestL PINKHAM FALLS
4 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKootenai National ForestTOBACCO ISLAND FIRE
30 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKootenai National ForestSAWMILL
22 September 1994Smokingunder an acreKootenai National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Rexford: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Valley View ClaimLead, ZincOccurrence
Unnamed GalenaLeadOccurrence

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rexford in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2014: 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2013HailRexford$2,000On the afternoon of Wednesday July 17th 2013, a right-moving supercell thunderstorm developed near Troy and tracked north and east across Rexford. A local business in Rexford reported structure and vehicle damage due to the estimated half-dollar hail. Several teenagers received bruises from the hail when they were on the shore of Lake Kookanusa. They estimated the thunderstorm wind gusts to 50 mph.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindRexford-The forest service located in Rexford reported that multiple trees had fallen down or snapped off.
May 2008Funnel CloudRexford-Northwest Montana Border Patrol and public reported funnel cloud between Rexford and Eureka, MT.

Every storm recorded in Lincoln County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Riverside (historical)1.8 miles11
Tobacco (historical)6.3 miles10
Mills Springs (historical)6.3 miles10
Midvale6.4 miles10
Eureka6.4 miles10
Gateway (historical)6.9 miles11
Roosville9.2 miles10
Dodge Summit9.9 miles9

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on RexfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q962953The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 806309. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.